Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard G. Scott

What I am trying to teach is that when we keep the temple covenants we have made and when we live righteously in order to maintain the blessings promised by those ordinances, then come what may, we have no reason to worry or to feel despondent.

What we can give our blessing to is the vision in the road map, the specific call for an unconditional cease-fire, with security steps like dismantling the terrorist infrastructure, ... Late Edition.

Bodhidharma

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

Bonnie Raitt

I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.

Bonnie Raitt

The challenge of course is in sobriety and that's been the blessing, to realize, to take accountability for the ways that your own thinking impacts your happiness, and your serenity, and your ability to be a productive and a loving, giving member of your family and society.

Bono

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

Aristophanes

Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

Brother Lawrence

Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.

Edward Young

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Betty White

If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a phenomenon.

Edward Gibbon

The Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce are actuated by the same impulse of savage nature, and relinquish for momentary rapine the long and secure possession of the most important blessings.

Benicio Del Toro

I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

Ben Stiller

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

Benedict Cumberbatch

It's always important to have the blessing.

Bear Grylls

Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.

August Strindberg

Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

Anthony Trollope

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

Demetri Martin

Count your blessings, but not out-loud, at the top of your lungs.

Connie Sellecca

One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government.

Arthur Hugh Clough

There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

Arthur Helps

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

Armand Assante

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

Brian Tracy

Self-disciplin e is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline , the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline , a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

Brian Henson

A puppet that starts to improvise badly is almost funnier than the puppet that's improvising well. So the show gets better when the improvising is really good, but also the show can also sometimes get better when the improvising sort of goes a little wrong and that's sort of a blessing to improvising with puppets.

Boyd Holbrook

For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The sweet companionship of eternal marriage is one of the greatest blessings God has granted to His children.

James E. Faust

As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.

Denis Waitley

Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

There are messages in each general conference given as a gift and a blessing from heaven specifically for our personal life situations.

William Shakespeare

Profit is a blessing, if it's not stolen.

Charlotte Bronte

Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day.